549 Quotes by G.K. Chesterton

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, you probably will not.

He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

Bad is so bad, that we cannot but think good an accident; good is so good, that we feel certain that evil could be explained.

When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.

What we all dread most,” said the priest in a low voice, “is a maze with no centre. That is why atheism is only a nightmare.

No man is such a legalist as the good Secularist.